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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Imagine freedom. You could smoke and carry knives and make jokes and no one assumed you were up to something. People were pissed at the Taliban for blowing up Buddhist statues. Laskar Jihad's website was hilarious. It was like Time Cube with slightly less schizophrenia. I dare you to google it now. Only old assholes did the "thank you for your service" crap. We laughed at dudes who had to wear their class A's while flying. A disabled veteran license plate wasn't a sure sign of a scamming piece of poo poo with "tinnitus". In the military having your pro-mask was more important than having your weapon. The south west wasn't quite in the grip of permanent, crushing drought yet. It was rare for gas prices to change by more that $.10 in a week. Netscape was my preferred browser. Going to the video store was the thing to do. I could still find games for my 3DO at the mall. I still had a tape-deck in my car. I guess there's been some progress at least.
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my skin was softer back then and now i'm starting to get wrinkles, guess things have just been more stressful lately
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My mom once greeted me at the airport by bringing our golden retriever right up to the gate. Now my fatass dog would be shot for being a living bomb.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:06
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we were gay but we didn't loving talk about it.
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notZaar posted:School shootings were a rare tragedy, rather than an annual event. just suspend him for a week or something.. Ork of Fiction fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Aug 29, 2015 01:15
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We played outside.
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Cymoril posted:We played outside. It was loving awesome.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:26
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Cymoril posted:We played outside. Some hurricane blew through and we had no power for four days and I was never bored. The power went out for two hours the other day and I just about died. The future has made me soft.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:34
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There were fewer patriotic cakes baked. Muslims were just those weird guys who ran local shops and stuff. Someone advised my dad to invest in property in Libya because it was going to be the new Dubai/Tunisia. Luckily, he didn't listen.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:40
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The police weren't militarized to gently caress. There was still the same old bribery/unlawful searches/manslaughter/etc but they weren't rolling in goddamn MRAPs.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:46
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people werent glued to their goddamn cell phones
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Aug 29, 2015 01:51
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America used to be able destroy a place like Serbia without working itself into a hate lather about it. People didn't shoot up eastern orthodox churches or accuse anyone with blue eyes of being a Chetnik.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:52
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To know what was on TV you either had to buy a TV guide from the store or watch the preview channel that slowly scrolled by the list channels and what was playing over the next 2 hours. You had to jerk off using porno magazines or video tapes which were passed about in secret cabals amongst the underage like magical relics. If you wanted to get on the internet it made your phone busy and if you had call waiting it would kick you off. Wrestling was at an all-time high in popularity and you haven't lived until you watched it while drinking a Clearly Canadian.
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Aug 29, 2015 01:52
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You had to call all black people African Americans even if they lived in Europe or were Australian aborigines or from India or were just really swarthy whites.
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Aug 29, 2015 02:27
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It was the end of history, op
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Aug 29, 2015 02:34
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It was blue skies... barthy burgers... girls...
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Aug 29, 2015 02:42
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It didn't cost anything to sign up for the Something Awful Forums. Then in 2001 the paywall went up and the towers came down. Coincidence?
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Aug 29, 2015 02:55
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we watched the second plane hit from a classroom window and some kid went "america totally deserves this" and the teacher threw a chair at him lol for some reason it got more difficult to get weed right afterwards too it really did change everything
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Aug 29, 2015 03:25
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I remember getting an inflight meal on a plane to oregon, back in the 90s. It even came with a toy. haven't seen inflight meals in a long time
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Aug 29, 2015 03:28
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Gatekeeper posted:we watched the second plane hit from a classroom window and some kid went "america totally deserves this" and the teacher threw a chair at him lol I wonder what that kids user name is.
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Aug 29, 2015 03:31
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Daedra posted:people werent glued to their goddamn cell phones They were just zoned out on their goddamn walkman headphones instead. Every generation has it's ways of ignoring everyone around them. 
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Aug 29, 2015 03:39
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New York city had 24/7 dust parties. After 9/11 everybody like awww that disrespectful
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Aug 29, 2015 03:46
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The most important thing was that as soon as that second plane hit, i think everyone in the country watching had a feeling that everything had changed. And even more so when the towers fell.
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Aug 29, 2015 03:53
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Tautologicus posted:The most important thing was that as soon as that second plane hit, i think everyone in the country watching had a feeling that everything had changed. yeah we all thought it was some freak accident or something, then all of a sudden we saw the second plane getting closer and closer and then gently caress man, heavy poo poo for a lil gatekeeper to take in all at once like that
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Aug 29, 2015 03:57
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Life was pretty much the same to be honest. I don't think you can really link current turmoil to it. I will say that airtravel was a lot better before then.
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Aug 29, 2015 03:59
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Gatekeeper posted:yeah we all thought it was some freak accident or something, then all of a sudden we saw the second plane getting closer and closer and then gently caress man, heavy poo poo for a lil gatekeeper to take in all at once like that it kinda happened with sandy hook and when they killed Osama but not really.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:00
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how me a frog posted:Life was pretty much the same to be honest. I don't think you can really link current turmoil to it. I will say that airtravel was a lot better before then. You can link literally every bad thing currently happening in the Middle East to 9/11.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:00
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:You can link literally every bad thing currently happening in the Middle East to 9/11. You could, but it feels disingenious. I do not believe the Middle East would be all sunshine and lollypops if it only werent for that blased 9/11.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:01
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how me a frog posted:You could, but it feels disingenious. I do not believe the Middle East would be all sunshine and lollypops if it only werent for that blased 9/11. Of course it would still be hosed, before 9/11 it was all hosed by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran/Iraq War. But it wouldn't be as hosed.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:03
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buying products online was amazing star trek poo poo i had a wife and a healthy liver
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Aug 29, 2015 04:04
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symbolic posted:this is why i want another national tragedy on the scale of 9/11. i just want that feeling you get when everything changes. 
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Aug 29, 2015 04:04
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yes i realize i'm a terrible person
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Aug 29, 2015 04:05
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its not that weird, there are a shitload of people who think that the only thing that can save humanity is the plot of independence day actually happening.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:06
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Tom Gorman posted:its not that weird, there are a shitload of people who think that the only thing that can save humanity is the plot of independence day actually happening. Bill Pullman for president.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:07
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Aug 29, 2015 04:07
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I'm not reading 4 pages so has anyone mentioned there's way more american flags now? Seriously, you'd see a few a day before 9/11 and since then every loving business has one and people have stickers on their cars and shirts with the flag on it and all kinds of things. This country is loving weird as hell about how obsessed with our flag we are. It's ridiculous.
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Aug 29, 2015 04:08
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gently caress you our flag is the best
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Aug 29, 2015 04:09
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Tom Gorman posted:its not that weird, there are a shitload of people who think that the only thing that can save humanity is the plot of independence day actually happening. Probably not wrong
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starry skies above posted:the Bush election not quite
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you could smoke at the bar and at mall food courts
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